From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-07-15T06:10:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Sydney Developer Preview 1 released


From: Berger, Daniel


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sam Roberts [mailto:sroberts@uniserve.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:24 PM
> > To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> > Subject: Re: [ANN] Sydney Developer Preview 1 released
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > On some old unix boxes. They aren't fun, its even less fun
> > when you can't get your favorite scripting language to build.
> >  Ruby goes through some trouble to work with K&R compilers,
> > doubt Matz would have gone through the pain if there weren't
> > real systems.
> >
>
> Bah, humbug.  TFB.
>
> Dan


To spare the international readership doing what I
just had to do for "TFB":

http://www.acronymdictionary.co.uk/acronympt.html#T


And from:
http://www.word-detective.com/012504.html

Hey, kid.  Forget the turkey and bring me more vodka.
-----------------------------------------------------

<extract>
"Humbug" would probably have faded from the English language a
hundred years ago were it not for Ebenezer Scrooge's famously
cranky declaration in Dickens' story that Christmas is "humbug."

What he meant, of course, was that Christmas and its attendant
celebrations and traditions, particularly of charity toward the
poor, are a sham, an insincere and wasteful ritual.

Scrooge changes his tune toward the end of the story after being
visited by a triad of even crankier spirits and becomes a regular
Happy Harry, flinging money at orphans and promising to celebrate
the spirit of Christmas every single day.
Incidentally, if you watch the final scene of the movie
["A Christmas Carol"] closely, you'll see three men approaching
bearing a large net.
</extract>


daz